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JAKARTA — Severe flooding in Jakarta has claimed at least three lives and forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes after heavy rains from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning inundated both residential and commercial areas across the…
RAPID SPIKE IN REGIONAL CASES REPORTED MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) on Monday declared a national dengue alert amid a spike in reported cases of the viral illness caused by female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in several…
CEBU CITY—An elderly man was reportedly killed in a fire that struck a densely populated urban poor village in Cebu City on Wednesday afternoon. Fire investigators from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said they had yet…
Hours after the incident occurred in Ronda National High School, 19 students from Colawin National High School in Barangay Colawin in Argao town, southeastern Cebu were also reported to have suffered mass hysteria. The Argao Municipal Disaster…
Heavy rains triggered floods, landslides in 7 southern towns, 1 city; 2 deaths reported Mary Flor Basadre-Quirante was trembling as she was packing her things inside her devastated house in Barangay Looc, Malabuyoc town, about 137 km…
ACTING Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is asking the city’s police to investigate deeper the death of an election assistant who jumped off the third floor of a mall last Tuesday. “I immediately called Col. (Cebu…
As classes began in private schools across Metro Cebu yesterday, moderate to heavy traffic was reported in various parts of the metropolis. About a hundred traffic enforcers were dispatched by the Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) to…
CEBU CITY–A sinkhole was discovered on Saturday morning in a river in the mountain barangay of Taytay, Badian town, 106 kilometers south of Cebu City. Police Officer 1 Rodjie Alicaway of the Badian police station said they…
Olango Island Government troops continued to search for two armed men spotted along the beach lines of Barangay San Vicente on Olango Island on Thursday afternoon. Soldiers and police forces conducted clearing operations, but until 5 p.m.…
TRAVEL ALERT, REPORTED TERROR THREATS Following Cebu’s successful hosting of meetings for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) 2017 Summit, local business leaders found reports of alleged terrorist threats in Central Visayas hard to believe. Cebu…
POLICE Regional Office (PRO-7) Director Noli Taliño said that no major incidents happened during the conduct of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) Summit meetings, which entered its second day today. Taliño said the meetings…
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